Legal Opinion

Santa's Best Craft, LLC v. St. Paul Fire and Marine Ins. Co.

District Court, N.D. Illinois

Decided January 25, 2005No. 04 C 1342PublishedCited by 5 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

GETTLEMAN, District Judge.

Despite this court’s comment in a previous opinion in this matter expressing dissatisfaction with the “proliferation of motions” and labeling this “the type of litigation practice that gives lawyers a bad name and judges headaches,” plaintiffs have brought a motion for partial summary judgment and defendant has filed a motion to stay that together have generated 77 pages of motions and briefs, accompanied by several hundred pages of affidavits and exhibits, which are riddled with premature, tangential, and redundant arguments and…

2Cases cited31 opinions

  1. Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1986
  2. Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, Administratrix of the Estate of CatrettSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
  3. Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio CorporationSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
  4. Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
  5. Crum & Forster Managers Corp. v. Resolution Trust Corp.Illinois Supreme Court · 1993

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3Cited by5 opinions

  1. Santa's Best Craft, LLC v. St. Paul Fire & Marine InsuranceCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2010
  2. Nat'l Cas. Co. v. S. Shore Iron Works, Inc.District Court, E.D. Illinois · 2018
  3. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co v. Shorenstein Realty Services, L.P.District Court, N.D. Illinois · 2010
  4. National Casualty Company v. South Shore Iron Works, Inc.District Court, N.D. Illinois · 2018
  5. US Fidelity & Guar. v. SHORENSTEIN REALTY SERS.District Court, N.D. Illinois · 2010

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